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When:
August 18, 2018 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
2018-08-18T09:00:00-10:00
2018-08-18T16:00:00-10:00
Where:
Eiben Hall, Room 127, Chaminade University
Cost:
$145
Saturday, August 18, 9am-4pm
Eiben Hall, Room 127, Chaminade University
Cost: $145
Instructor: Colin Macdonald
Adobe InDesign combines extraordinary production power and creative freedom to take your page designs to new levels. This course introduces you to the fundamentals of InDesign’s tools, menus, panels, and more. Discover how to customize the workspace, preferences, and keyboard shortcuts and produce superb typography and accurate page layouts for print or web. Explore import functions to incorporate text and images from a variety of sources. Learn how to specify color and bleeds, for accurate prepress, and how to create press-ready files for print. Master great features like Smart Guides, Smart Alignment and Spacing, and Live Preflight.
This workshop is ideal for graphic designers, art directors, and production artists. Gain practical knowledge and become more efficient and productive with time-saving hands-on projects in design and layout.
Prerequisite: Ability to navigate the Mac desktop.
Colin Macdonald is the director of web operations for the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He instituted the first multimedia courses at the UHM Department of Communication, where he taught multimedia design and development for over a decade. Previously, he directed creative services for the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. As an art director for A&M Records in Canada, he gained extensive knowledge of print media. He has conducted traditional media and multimedia training courses in Asia, Hawai’i, and the continental United States for nearly 20 years. He is a core faculty member of Pacific New Media.